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Juno Data Refine Jupiter’s Size, Finding the Giant Slightly Smaller and More Flattened

New radio-occultation passes in Juno’s extended mission cut size uncertainties by an order of magnitude through modeling the influence of Jupiter’s powerful zonal winds.

New Jupiter Model Finds More Oxygen and Far Slower Atmospheric Mixing

Juno Sounding Finds Europa’s Outer Ice Layer Averages 18 Miles Thick in Surveyed Region

New Model Shows Salty Europa Ice Could Sink, Ferrying Nutrients to Its Hidden Ocean

New Simulations Challenge Giant-Impact Origin of Jupiter’s Fuzzy Core

New Simulations Undercut Giant-Impact Origin of Jupiter's Dilute Core

NASA Plans New Annealing Trials After JunoCam Image Noise Returns